50 Famous Telugu Actors Name list with Photos 2023
Here is the list of Telugu Born and brought of actors list. Who belongs to a Telugu family and works in Telugu Film Industry.
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1 Allu Arjun
Allu Arjun is an actor in Telugu cinema. His debut movie was Gangotri. His well-known movies include Bunny, Desamuduru, Parugu, Arya 2, Vedam, Julayi, Race Gurram, S/O Satyamurthy, Rudhramadevi, Sarrainodu, DJ: Duvvada Jagannadham, Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo, and Pushpa: The Rise.
Allu Arjun was born on April 8, 1982, in Chennai, India. His height is 5 feet 9 inches, weight is 69 kg, hair color is light brown and eye color is brown. His net worth is $47 million.
2 Prabhas
Uppalapati Venkata Suryanarayana Prabhas Raju, professionally known as Prabhas is an actor in Telugu cinema. His debut movie was Eeswar. His other popular movies include Varsham, Chatrapathi, Bujjigadu, Billa, Darling, and Mr. Perfect. Mirchi, Baahubali: The Beginning, and Baahubali 2: The Conclusion.
Prabhas was born on October 23, 1979, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. His height is 5 feet 1 inch, weight is 95 kg, hair color is black and eye color is brown. His net worth is $29 million.
3 Ram Charan
Konidela Ram Charan Teja, Professionally known as Ram Charan is an actor in Telugu cinema. His debut film was Chirutha. He has appeared in movies like Magadheera, Racha, Naayak, Yevadu, Govindudu Andarivadele, Dhruva, Rangasthalam, RRR, Khaidi No. 150, Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy, and Magadheera.
He was born on March 27, 1985, in Chennai, India. His height is 5 feet 8 inches, weight is 75 kg, hair color is light brown, and eye color is brown. His net worth is $175 million.
4 Mahesh Babu
Ghattamaneni Mahesh Babu is an Indian actor, producer, media personality, and philanthropist who works mainly in Telugu cinema. He made his debut with the film Needa as a child artist. He made his debut as a lead actor with Preity Zinta in the 1999 movie Raja Kumarudu. Some of his other well-known works include Yuvaraju, Vamsi, Murari, Takkari Donga, Bobby, Naani, Okkadu, Pokiri, Brahmotsavam, Spyder, Maharshi, and Sarkari Vaari Paata.
Mahesh was born on August 9, 1975, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. His height is 6 feet 1 inch and his weight is 70 Kg. His hair color is black and his eye color is brown. His net worth is $20 million
5 N.T. Rama Rao Jr.
Nandamuri Taraka Rama Rao Jr., also known as Jr. NTR or Tarak, is an Indian actor, dancer, and television presenter who primarily works in the Telugu film industry. He made his debut as a lead actor in the feature film Ninnu Choodalani. He became popular with his film Student No. 1 and has also worked in several other successful films such as Simhadri, Andhrawala, Samba, Rakhi, Yamadonga, Adhurs, and Brindavanam. He has won several accolades, including two Filmfare Awards, two state Nandi Awards, and four CineMAA Awards.
N.T.R. Jr. was born on May 20, 1983, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. His height is 5 feet 5 inches and his weight is 78 Kg. Both his hair and eye color are black. His net worth is $150 million
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6 Nagarjuna Akkineni
Akkineni Nagarjuna Rao, known mononymously as Nagarjuna, is an Indian actor, film producer, television presenter, and entrepreneur. He predominantly works in the Telugu industry and has acted in over 100 films. He made his debut with the Telugu action film Vikram. he appeared in films like Majnu, Sankeertana, Aakhari Poratam, Devdas, and Janaki Ramudu. In his long-standing career as an artist, he has won several accolades and awards statewide as well as international recognition. He is also currently hosting the very popular Big Boss show in Telugu.
Nagarjuna was born on August 29, 1959, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. His height is 6 feet and his weight is 74 Kg. His hair color is black and his eye color is brown. His net worth is $410 million.
7 Nani
Ghanta Naveen Babu, known professionally as Nani, is an Indian actor, producer, and television presenter who predominantly works in the Telugu film industry. He made his acting debut with the film Ashta Chamma. Some of his other well-known works include Veppam, Ee, Jersey, Gang LEader, Ninnu Kori, Devadas, Makkhi, Tuck Jagadish, and Shyam Singha Roy. He has also worked in a few Tamil films and garnered much recognition and attention with the film Naan Ee/ Eega.
Nani was born on February 24, 1984, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. His height is 5 feet 8 inches and his weight is 68 Kg. His hair color is black and his eye color is dark brown. His net worth is $8 million.
8 Naga Chaitanya Akkineni
Akkineni Naga Chaitanya is an Indian actor who predominantly works in Telugu cinema. He made his acting debut with the film Josh but his breakthrough came with Gautham Vasudev Menon-directed Ye Maaya Chesave. Some of his other well-known works include Dhada, Tadakha, Manam, Autonagar Surya, Oka Laila Kosam, Dochay, Mahanati, Majili, Venky Mama, and Love Story.
Naga Chaitanya was born on November 23, 1986, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. His height is 5 feet 7 inches and his weight is 74 Kg. Both his hair and eye color are black. His net worth is $21 million.
9 Vijay Deverakonda
Deverakonda Vjiay sai also known as Vijay deverakonda was born (9 May 1989) to Govardhan Rao and Madhavi in Hyderabad (Now at Telangana). He is best known for his blockbuster hit Telugu films like Arjun Reddy(2017), Geetha Govindam(2018) and many more.
His debut film was Nuvvila(2011) but got much praise in Yevade Subramanyam(2015). About schooling Vijay completed his 10th grade at Sri Sathya Sai Higher Secondary School was a boarding school in Puttaparthi. He holds degree for Bachelor of Commerce.Anand is his younger brother, who is also an actor.
Recently his debut to Bollywood movie Liger alongside Ananya Pandey was received criticism and negative review became a flop at theatres. Although his is holding best actor in Telugu by Film fare awards -South at 2018.
10 Nithiin
Nithiin Kumar Reddy, professionally known as Nithiin is an actor and producer in Telugu cinema. His debut movie was Jayam. His other movies include Dil, Sri Anjaneyam, Sye, Ishq, Gunde Jaari Gallanthayyinde, Heart Attack, A Aa, Bheeshma, and Rang De.
Nithiin was born on March 30, 1983, in Nizamabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. His height is 5 feet 10 inches, weight is 73 kg, hair color is black and eye color is black. His net worth is $20 million. Read Full Bio
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11 Pawan Kalyan
Pawan Kalyan born as Konidela Kalyan Babu is an actor, director, screenwriter, philanthropist and politician. His debut movie is Akkada Ammayi Ikkada Abbayi. His other popular movies include Gokulamlo Seeta, Suswagatham, Tholi Prema, Thammudu, Badri, Kushi, Jalsa, Gabbar Singh, Gopala Gopala, and Attarintiki Daredi.
Kalyan was born on September 2, 1968, in Bapatla, Andhra Pradesh, India. His height is 5 feet 10 inches, weight is 70 kg, hair color is black and eye color is black. His net worth is $15 million.
12 Rana Daggubati
Ramanaidu Rana Daggubati, professionally known as Rana Daggubati is an actor and producer in the Telugu film industry. His debut movie was Leader. His other movies include Dum Maaro Dum, Baby, Baahubali: The Beginning, Baahubali 2: The Conclusion, Rudramadevi, Ghazi, Nene Raju Nene Mantri, Sainikudu, and Nenu Naa Rakshasi.
Rana was born on December 14, 1984, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. His height is 6 feet 2 inches, weight is 102 kg, hair color is black and eye color is black. His net worth is $6 million.
13 Ravi Teja
Ravi Shankar Raju Bhupatiraju, professionally known as Ravi Teja is an actor in the Telugu cinema. His popular movies include Nee Kosam, Itlu Sravani Subramanyam, Avunu Valliddaru Ista Paddaru!, Idiot, Khadgam, Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi, Venky, Naa Autograph, Bhadra, Vikramarkudu, Dubai Seenu, Krishna, Neninthe, Kick, Shambo Shiva Shambo, Don Seenu, Mirapakay, Balupu, Power, Bengal Tiger, Raja the Great, and Krack.
He was born on January 26, 1968, in Jaggampeta, Andhra Pradesh, India. His net worth is 5 feet 10 inches, weight is 70 kg, hair color is black and eye color is brown. His net worth is $16 million. Read Full Bio
14 Chiranjeevi
Chiranjeevi is an Indian actor, film producer and former politician, who predominantly works in Telugu cinema. He made his acting debut with the Telugu film Punadhirallu however his first Pranam Khareedu got released earlier. He rose to fame with the film Khaidi. Some of his well-known works include Gang Leader, Sangharshana, Hero, Devanthakudu, Naagu, Donga, Chiranjeevi, Yudha Bhoomi, Hanuman, Style, Magadheera and Acharya.
Chiranjeevi was born on August 22 1955, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. His height is 5 feet 9 inches and weight is 80 Kg. His hair color is black and his eye color is brown. His net worth is $200 million.
15 Daggubati Venkatesh
Daggubati Venkatesh is an actor in Telugu cinema. His debut movie was Kaliyuga Pandavulu. His well-known movies include Bobbili Raja, Chanti, Intlo Illalu Vantintlo Priyuralu, Preminchukundam Raa, Suryavamsam, Premante Idera, Raja, Kalisundam Raa, Jayam Manadera, Sankranti, Lakshmi, Adavari Matalaku Ardhalu Verule, Ganesh, Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu, Drushyam, and F2: Fun and Frustration, Swarna Kamalam, Prema, Dharma Chakram, Ganesh, Kalisundam Raa, and Aadavari Matalaku Arthale Verule.
He was born on December 13, 1960, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. His height is 6 feet, weight is 78 kg, hair color is black and eye color is brown. His net worth is $15 million. Read Full Bio
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16 Gopichand
Tottempudi Gopichand is an Indian actor who works primarily in Telugu cinema. He made his debut with the Telugu film Tholi Valapu in a lead role. He got his first breakthrough with the film Yagnam after taking up a few villainous roles. His other well-known works include Oxygen, Golimaar, Pantham, Sahasam, Chanakya, Goutham Nanda, Seetimaarr and Pakka Commercial.
Gopichand was born on June 12 1979, in Tangutur, Maharashtra, India. His height is 6 feet 1 inche and weight is 75 Kg. His hair color is black and eye color is dark brown. His net worth is $1-5 million.
17 Jagapathi Babu
Veeramachaneni Jagapathi Rao Chowdary, professionally known as Jagapathi Babu, is an Indian actor who predominantly works in the Telugu film industry. He made his debut with the Telugu film Simha Swapnam. His other well-known works include Bangaru Babu, Nannaku Prematho, Jagapati, Bairava, Legend, Salaar, Hello, Madrasi, Srimanthudu and Miss India.
Jagapathi was born on February 12 1962, in Machilipatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. His height is 5 feet 11 inches and weight is 80 Kg. His hair color is black and eye color is dark brown. His net worth is $13 million.
18 Arvind Krishna
Arvind Krishna is his known name from his real Chavali Venkata Arvind Krishna Sharma. He is an Indian actor at Telugu cinema. Born on 5 June 1985 at Hyderabad to a family of bureaucrats. His education persued from MaST( Maths and Science Technology) in United States then Btech in Biotechnology from Hyderabad. Arvind’s debut movie in a supporting role Alasyam Amrutham movie.
After that he starred as a main lead was It’s My Love Story. His performance in the film earned him a nomination for Best Debut Actor (Male)- Telugu at SIIMA Awards, 2012. Now Arvind is playing for the team Hyderabad Ballers in 3×3 basketball league (3BL), India. Lots of Love is his Recent working projects and it was MX Player’s flagship product for Telugu and Tamil.
Arvind got engaged to Dipika Prasad, who works in the social enterprise and impact investing space, in August 2012 and got married on 18 November 2012 at Tirumala.
19 Sai Dharam Tej
Panja Sai Dharam Tej known as short name sai tej in Telugu cinema. He was born on 15 October 1986 to Vijaya Durga who is a sister to a well known Telugu actor Chiranjeevi so actors like Allu Arjun, Ram Charan, Allu Sirish, Varun Tej and Niharika Konidela are Tej’s cousins.
Pawan Kalyan and Nagendra Babu are his maternal uncles. Moving to his schooling his completed his school life in Nalanda school at Hyderabad and completed his graduation at St. Mary’s College same at Hyderabad. Pilla Nuvvu Leni Jeevitham(2014) is his debut movie in Telugu cinema but before his was shooted for YVS Chowdary’s Rey released later on 2015. Supreme was his acclaimed one of best movie which went successfully on theatres and earned well. Later he was criticised for picking up similar kind of role and regular stories he did on Thikka (2016), Winner (2017), Jawaan (2017), Inttelligent (2018) and Tej I Love You (2018).
In 2021 he met an accident on motorcycle but out of danger he got soft tissue injuries and a collar bone fracture was admitted at Apollo hospital. Republic (2021) was his last film till now which was another hit to box office.He is ready for next project with Sampath Nandi.
20 Varun Tej
Konidela Varun Tej as known with his short name Varun Tej is an Telugu actor works on Indian cinema. Born on 19 January 1990 to a well known actor and producer Nagendra Babu. He is nephew to actors Chiranjeevi and Pawan Kalyan. Actors like Ram Charan, Allu Arjun, Allu Sirish, Sai Tej and Panja Vaisshnav Tej are his cousins.
He did schooling completed from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Jubilee Hills, Hyderabad and St. Mary’s College Hyderabad. He made his film debut from Mukunda alongside new starrer Pooja Hegde got mixed review. Later on 2017 Fidaa got him to lime light with successful superhit at the box office grossing 90 crores.
Tholi Prema was is second hit film.F2: Fun and Frustration at 2019 was also his best film multistarrer with Venkatesh, Tamannaah and Mehreen Pirzada are also a part of this movie. His last films like ghani and F3 released on 2022 got mixed reviews.
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21 Akhil Akkineni
Akhil Akkineni is an Telugu cinema actor working in Indian films. Born on 8 April 1994 to a well known family of Akkineni. His father is an actor too at Telugu cinema Nagarjuna and mother Amala. Akkineni studied at Chaitanya Vidyalaya(India), he moved to Australia for two years.
Later he returned to complete his studies at Oakridge International School, Hyderabad. He did BBA from the University of South Florida. He persued acting course at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York. He did acting as child artist in his father’s production Sisindri(1995). Manam(2014) a Telugu film in which Akhil got cameo alongside his family members like grandfather, father and half brother.
He made his debut with the film Akhil(2015) but got poor reviews and was a flop. Later a romantic comedy movie Most Eligible bachelor gave him a breakthrough and became hit at the box office. On 2016 Akkineni was engaged to Shriya Bhupal, grand daughter of business tycoon G. V. Krishna Reddy. Later on 2017 engagement was called off as they were going to be married.
22 Sandeep Kishan
Sundeep Kishan is an Telugu actor working on Indian cinema. Sundeep was born on 7 May 1987 to Telugu family at Chennai. He do have relative to Telugu. Film industry, cinnamatographer Chota K. Naidu and Shyam K. Naidu are his uncles.
He moved to Hyderabad to pursue career in films at 2008. Earlier days he worked as assistant director Gautham Vasudev Menon for a year. Prasthanam was his debut movie in Telugu cinema.2015 a Telugu film Tiger was appreciated some well known Telugu actors like Ravi Teja, Allu Arjun and R. Narayana Murthy.
He also featured in Hindi Bollywood movie Shor in the city. Yaaruda Mahesh was his debut in Tamil cinema. Recently he was seen at very famous Hindi web series released on Amazon prime – The family man as Major Vikaram alongside on lead Manoj Bajpayee. He is in business also as Kishan owns a restaurant chain in Hyderabad named Vivaha Bhojanambhu. He also started a saloon business Express Unisex in Vijayawada. Read Full Bio
23 Bellamkonda Sreenivas
Bellamkonda Sai Sreenivas also known as Bellamkonda Sreenivas is an Telugu actor works in Indian cinema. He was born on 3 January 1993 at Telugu cinema producer Bellamkonda Suresh.
He persued his acting course at Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute at Los Angeles (USA) and Barry John Acting Studio at Mumbai (India).He made his debut with Action comedy film Alludu Seenu(2014) alongside famous actress Samantha Ruth Prabhu and actor Prakash Raj. Film went very well at box office and got Filmfare for Best Male debut Actor.
Speedunnodu was his second film which is a remake of Tamil movie Sundarapandian.In November 2020, the Hindi remake of the Telugu film Chatrapathi (2005) was announced, which would mark his Bollywood debut. V. V. Vinayak is signed as its director and the title will same as that in Telugu movie. Stuartpuram Donga is his ongoing project. Read Full Bio
24 Sharwanand
Sharwanand Myneni is an actor in the Telugu film industry. He is known for his movies like Prasthanam, Engeyum Eppodhum, Run Raja Run, Malli Malli Idi Rani Roju, Express Raja, Sathamanam Bhavati, Mahanubhavudu, Radha, Jaanu and Sreekaram.
Sharwanand was born on March 6, 1984, in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India. His net worth is 5 feet 10 inches, weight is 7kg, hair color is black and eye color is dark brown. His net worth is $1-3 million. Read More
25 Bala Krishna
Nandamuri Balakrishna, mononymously known as Balakrishna or Balayya, is an Indian actor, producer and politician. In his long standing career in acting of 40 years he has appeared in more than 100 films. He entered the film industry as a child artist with the film Tatamma Kala. He is well-known for some of his movies such as Jai Simha, Ruler, Akhanda, Legend, Lion, Adhinayakudu, Ramu, Allari Krishnayya, Devudu and Srimannarayana.
Bala Krishna was born on June 10 1960, in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. His height is 5 feet 5 inches and weight is 74 Kg. Both his hair and eye color are black. His net worth is $10 million.
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26 Nikhil Siddharth
Nikhil Siddhartha is an Indian actor who works in Telugu films. He played in several small roles before landing the role in Happy Days as one of the four male leads. His first film as a solo lead was Ankit, Pallavi & Friends. He went on to appear in films like Yuvatha, Kalavar King, Aalasyam Amrutham, and Veedu Theda.
Nikhil was born on June 1 1985, in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. His height is 5 feet 9 inches and weight is 75 Kg. His hair color is black and eye color is dark brown. His net worth is $5 million. Read Full Bio
27 Allu Sirish
Allu Sirish is an Telugu actor working in Indian cinema. Born on 30 May 1987 to Telugu film producer Allu aravind. He is brother of Allu Arjun and Allu venkatesh. He is Allu Sirish can be seen as child artist in Hindi film Pratibandh and mayabazar.
He made his debut with the film Gouravam(2013) opposite actress Yami Gautam which was produced by Prakash Raj and directed by Radha Mohan.Later featured in films like Kotha Janta (2014), Srirastu Subhamastu (2016), and Okka Kshanam (2017).
In 2019, He starred in the film ABCD (American Born Confused Desi), which was a Telugu remake of the Malayalam film with the same name, starring Dulquer Salmaan. The film was a story of a rich spoilt brat who gets kicked out of his house and finds it hard to reform. He was admired for his performance.Oorvasivo Rakshasivo was his last appearance in year 2022 and movie garnered positive reviews and went on to become a hit. Read Full Bio
28 Abijeet Duddala
Abijeet Duddala is an Telugu actor working in Indian cinema. Born on 11 October 1988 at Hyderabad. He did his schooling from Rishi Valley School,Madanapalle and intermediate completed from Little Flower Junior College.
He did his graduation from Malla Reddy College in aeronautical engineering. Sekhar Kammula’s team spotted him while audition for the film life is beautiful, later he was selected as lead on that film and became his debut film, but accordingly he was there to accompany his friend for the audition.
In the year 2015 Abijeet Northeastern University Boston, Massachusetts to get a Masters of Science in Engineering Management.In 2017, Abijeet made his television debut with Viu’s web series Pelli Gola opposite Varshini Sounderajan. The series was successful and he went on to feature in two more seasons. He entered in Reality show Big boss Telugu season four as a contestant and emerged as a title winner. In the year 2022, Modern Love Hyderabad web series was released casted him in Amazon Prime Video. Read Full Bio
29 Adivi Sesh
Adivi Sesh Sunny Chandra also known as Adivi Sesh is an Telugu actor working in Indian cinema. Born on 17 December 1985 in Hyderabad. He did his schooling from Berkeley High School,Berkeley, California. He then goes for undergraduate in San Francisco State University.
Adivi Baapiraju is his grandfather who was as well known novelist, playwright, and freedom fighter. He has a sister. Sontham (2002) was his debut movie as small guest appearance. Later he debuted as a director and writer in the 2010 film Karma, which also starred Jade Tailor and Sher Ali.
In 2015 then he appeared in S. S. Rajamouli’s epic drama Baahubali: The Beginning. Kshanam(2016) gave him attention by the audience directed by Ravikanth Perepu. A major breakthrough he got from the movie Major where he played role of Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan which takes on June 3, 2022.
The movie became biggest success which made him PAN India star. In the year 2020 he confirmed writing script on Goodachari 2 whose prequel came on 2018.Sesh is also signed to feature in HIT 2: The Second Case, a sequel to the film HIT: The First Case (2020). Sesh won the IIFA Award, Telugu for the Best Screenplay and the Nandi Award for the Best Screenplay Writer. Read Full Bio
30 Naveen Polishetty
Naveen Polishetty is an Indian actor working mostly on Telugu and Hindi films. Born on born 26 December 1989 in Hyderabad. His father is in pharmaceutical business while his mother is a bank employee. He is having two siblings and both are settled in United States.
He is a civil engineer from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (also known as NIT Bhopal) and joined a software firm in Pune. He also went to England for working as Civil engineer. He made his career in acting in Mumbai where he use to do theatre part time as his choice was to become actor but secretly without informing to his family. Later his debut movie came out called Life is beautiful.
He tried many other things like theatre and stand up comedy. He collaborated with AIB to make YouTube videos. Agent Sai Srinivasa Athreya gave him attention from audience as it went hit, the film was also co wrote by him and played lead.He then made his Hindi cinema debut in Nitesh Tiwari’s Chhichhore. Both the films performed very well at box office. The film went biggest hit later. Late Sushant Singh Rajput was on lead in this movie alongside many other actors.
31 Vishwak sen
Vishwak Sen born as Dinesh Naidu is an Indian actor, director and screenwriter working in mostly Telugu films. Born on 29 March 1995 in Hyderabad. As guided by his father who believe in numerology changed his name from Dinesh to Vishwak as he believed that his birthname will not give him success.
Vellipomakey was his Telugu debut movie in the year 2017. The film hot mix reviews. The Times of India appreciated Vishwak for playing role of chandu on it.2018, he starred in Ee Nagaraniki Emaindhi directed by Tharun Bhascker Dhaassyam of Pelli Choopulu fame.
This film also got positive response from release and went successfull on box office. Vishwak also made his debut as director,writter and co-producer for the movie Falaknuma Das. This movie released to mixed reviews, but the depiction of Old City, Hyderabad was praised.HIT: The First Case(2020) released and receive positive reviews.
32 Naga Shourya
Naga Shaurya is an actor, producer and writer working in Telugu film industry. Born on 22 January 1989 in Eluru, Andhra Pradesh. He played tennis at early days before entering to film industry. He moved to Vijayawada and stayed for few years then he moved to Hyderabad for starts his acting career life.
Chandamama Kathalu was his first released films but before this film he already completed his romantic comedy Oohalu Gusagusalade which released later,Oohalu Gusagusalade become commercial hit and got many success. He had given notable hit films to industry like Oh! Baby alongside Samantha Akkineni,Dikkulu Choodaku Ramayya, Kalyana Vaibhogame and many more.
In 2021 he had two releases like Varudu Kaavalenu and Lakshya. Both the films were not successful later on both the films can be steam on OTT like Zee5 and aha.Naga Shourya gets married with his long-time girlfriend Anusha Shetty in Bangalore on Sunday 20 November 2022. Phalana Abbai Phalana Ammai, Nari Nari Naduma Murari and Police Vari Hecharikadagger are his upcoming projects in 2023.
33 Priyadarshi Pulikonda
Priyadarshi Pulikonda is an Indian actor and comedian mainly works at Telugu cinema. Born on 25 August 1989 in Telugu family in which his father Pulikonda Subbachary is a professor at Hyderabad.
He holds BSc in Statistics from MNR Degree &PG College and PG degree in Mass communication from the University of Hyderabad. A romantic comedy movie Pelli Choopulu was his known film from where he got his recognition to the film industry.
The film was praised for story line, performances and clean humour. Priyadarshi was praised for pulling off the Telangana Baasha with ease.He even played a terrorist in the film Terror.Loser was his web series where he played the role of a rifle short. Critics appreciated his performance.
He has appeared in several short films. He appeared in Jai Lava Kusa which starrer like NTR Jr. Nivetha Thomas and Raashi Khanna. He has done other language films like Tamil and Malyalam.Priyadarshi married writer Richa Sharma in 2018, who was his senior at the University of Hyderabad.
34 Panja Vaisshnav Tej
Panja Vaisshnav Tej is an Indian actor working in Telugu cinema. Born on 13 January 1995 to a family of Allu-Konidela. He has a brother who is also an actor Sai Dharam Tej.
His uncles are Chiranjeevi and Pawan Kalyan. He did schooling in Nalanda school, Hyderabad and completed his graduation from St. Mary’s College, Hyderabad. He has done film as child artist in Johnny(2003) with his uncle Pawan Kalyan. On Shankar Dada M.B.B.S. he played role of Wheel chair-ridden child.
His Debut movie was Romantic drama film Uppena alongside Krithi Shetty and Tamil Vijay Sethupathi. He did his next movie rural drama Konda Polam alongside Rakul Preet Singh.He has signed a film under the production of Nagarjuna’s Annapurna Studios.
35 Satyadev Kancharana
Satyadev Kancharana as known for his nickname Satya Dev. He is an Indian actor working in Telugu cinema. Born on 4 July 1989 in Visakhapatnam. He attended SFS School and Nalanda Talent School in Visakhapatnam. After completion he did his graduation in Computer science engineering from MVGR College of Engineering, Vijayanagaram. Soon later after graduation he worked Virtual Design Architect for IBM and VMware till 2016.
After that he focused on acting career from doing short films.Starting with supporting roles, Satyadev established himself as a leading actor. He appeared first at feature film Mr. Perfect (2011). He continued to do small roles in films like Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu and Mukunda. Maine Pyar Kiya was his noticable film.
His best performance can be seen at Jyothi Lakshmi(2015),Kshanam(2016),Mana Oori Ramayanam(2016),Bluff Master(2018), Brochevarevarura(2019) and Uma Maheswara Ugra Roopasya(2020).The Ghazi Attack was an film which came on both Telugu and in Hindi made him noticable to Bollywood audience, the film was multi starrer film like Rana Daggubati,Kay Kay Menon,Taapsee Pannu and Atul Kulkarni.
Recently he appeared on Hindi film starring Akshay Kumar- Ram Setu(2022) which got negative review from critics. He also featured on music video Daare Leda alongside Roopa Kodavayur. He is married to Deepika and they are having soon born on 2020.
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36 Aadhi Pinisetty
Aadhi Pinisetty is an Indian actor mostly working in Telugu & Tamil film industry. Born on 14 December 1982 to a Film director Ravi Raja Pinisetty( Directed more than 50 films). His childhood spends on Chennai where he did schooling at Don Bosco school.
His debut film was a Telugu comedy film Oka V Chitram directed by Teja. Later he appeared on Tamil film Mirugam. Sarrainodu was his critical acclaim reviewed film which gave him success. Critics response says that Aadhi’s screen presence elevates the film.Maragadha Naanayam was his surprise box office success film. He appeared in several Tamil films like Kochadaiiyaan,Aravaan,Ayyanar and few more.
Likewise he played many Telugu films like Gundello Godari, Ninnu Kori, Neevevaro and few more. His first prominent role was in the Tamil film Eeram (2009), produced by director S. Shankar. Saptham is his forthcoming project which will release soon. He has done web series too which stream on Amazon Prime Video in the name of Modern Love Hyderabad. Last year in March 2022 he married his long time girlfriend Nikki Galrani is an actor too.
37 Aadi
Aditya Pudipeddi also known as Aadi is an Indian actor working in Telugu cinema. Born on 23 December 1989 in Andhra Pradesh. His father is also an actor Sai Kumar. P. J. Sarma is his grandfather and P. Ravi Shankar is his Uncle. Till 7th grade he schooled at Padma Sheshadri, Chennai. Then he got admitted on St. Andrews School for his higher education.
He completed his graduation from Bhavan’s Vivekananda College. He played for under-19 Ranji Cricket Team under the captaincy of Ambati Rayudu, and Pragyan Ojha, he was all rounder in. Cricket. Later his intrested towards acting bought him to film industry. He debut in Telugu romantic action film Prema Kavali. He got many appreciation from the film and got Hyderabad Times award 2011 for Promising New comer make. CineMAA Awards (2012) for best Debut Actor of 2012 and Filmfare Awards South (2012) for Best Male Debut – South Indian International Movie Awards of 2011.
His successfull films he denoted in industry are Sukumarudu(2013),Pyar Mein Padipoyane(2014), Shamantakamani (2017), Operation Gold Fish(2019) and Tees Maar Khan(2022).Jungle,Kirathaka,CSI Sanatan and Amaran in the City: Chapter-1 are his upcoming working projects yet to completed.Aadi also did sung a Telugu song named Chinna Pillalu in the film Pyaar Mein Padipoyane(2014).Aadi is married to Aruna, a software professional from Rajahmundry, in December 2014, and the couple has a daughter.
38 Kalyaan Dhev
Kalyan Kanuganti as known as Kalyaan Dhev is an Indian actor working in Telugu cinema. Born on 11 February 1990 to father Kalyan Kanuganti and mother Jyothi Kanuganti in Khairatabad, Hyderabad.Kalyaan has one sibling. He made his debut with the action drama film Vijetha(2018) directed by Rakesh Sashi alongside Malavika Nair and Murali Sharma.
Kalyaan won SIIMA Award for Best Male Debut – Telugu at the 8th SIIMA for his role in the film. The film was commercially successful. Later he appeared in two more films like Super Machi and Kinnerasani. He got married to Sreeja Kanugantion on Mar 28, 2016.
The two tied the knot at Bengaluru at their farm house. Sreeja Kanuganti is daughter of the daughter of Telugu actor, Chiranjeevi and Surekha Konidela. His wife belongs to a Kapu Caste.The couple has two Daughter, Nivrithi Kanuganti (step-daughter), and Navishka Kanuganti.
39 Anand Deverakonda
Anand Deverakonda in an Indian actor working in Telugu cinema. Born on 16 March 1992 to Telugu director who make TV serials Govardhan Rao and mother Madhavi was a soft-skill tutor at Hyderabad. He has elder brother who is most prominent to Telugu cinema Vijay deverakonda. He holds a engineering Degree and was doing job in Deloitte before joining to film industry and also worked in United States.
After spending his job career he returned to India for focusing on his acting career in films. He made his debut Telugu romantic drama film Dorasaani which was directed by KVR Mahendra starring Anand and Shivatmika Rajashekhar. The film got mixed reviews from critics. Although it didn’t went well on box office.
Anand holds an award for Zee Cine Award Telugu for Best Male Debut(2020). Moreover his films are less like Middle class melodies which was directly released on Amazon prime Video in 2020 and later Highway which premiered on aha OTT in August 2022.Baby and Gam Gam Ganesha are forthcoming films which are already filming soon to be released.
40 Chethan Cheenu
Srinivas Rao better known as Chetan Cheenu is an Indian actor and producer working in Telugu cinema.He was born to father Satya Narayana Murthy in Amalapuram, Andhra Pradesh. He raised in both City Chennai and Hyderabad.
After his schooling, He finished his Bachelors of Commerce from Alpha Arts & Science College, Chennai. He next learned classical dance from Vempati Chinna Satyam. He then started his career in Modeling and worked for a few brands like Garnier, Dominos and 5Star.
In 1990, Chethan started his acting career as a child artist in the Tamil Film Industry with Mani Ratnam’s ‘Anjali’ movie. He then appeared in a couple of Tamil films like Karungali (2011), and Naan Sigapu Manithan (2014).
In 2015, Chethan made his debut in the Telugu Film Industry with the ‘Raju Gari Gadhi’ movie. He then acted in a couple of movies like Mantra 2 and Pelliki Mundu Prema Katha.
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41 akash Puri
Akash Puri is an Indian actor working in Telugu cinema. Born on 25 July 1997 to a Telugu film director Puri Jagannadh in Hyderabad. Akash is working in films from childhood as child artist and done many films like Chirutha which was directed by his father and film star casted on film were Ramcharan and Neha Sharma. Bujjigadu,Ek Niranjan, The Lotus Pond, Businessman, Dhoni and Gabbar Singh were his films acted as child artist.
Later he debuted in the film Andhra Pori which was directed by Raj Madiraju in 2015. It was an remake of Marathi film Timepass starring Prathamesh Parab and Ketai Mategaonkar which is based on the novel by Shaju Mathew’s Knocked up released in 2010. After that he casted on the film Mehbooba a reincarnation romantic action drama film which was directed by his father Puri Jagannadh. This film did well in the box office and became commercial hit.
He has also played in the film called romantic which was again directed by his father alongside Ketika Sharma. The film got mixed reviews from the critics. He acted on Telugu romantic action film chor bazaar but the film goes flop at the theatres.
42 Naveen Chandra
Naveen Chandra is an Indian actor working in Telugu cinema. Born on 2 December 1988 in a Telugu family at Bellary. He grew up in a middle class family where his father is an head mechanic in KSRTC. Naveen completed Diploma in mechanical engineering and worked as multimedia animator before starting his acting career.
He made his in 2006’s Telugu film Sambhavami Yuge Yuge. After that he did film Kalyanam. Later he worked in Tamil film industry and did a Tamil debut film Pazhaniappa Kalloori (2007). He used many stagenames like Anji in debut film, Chandu and Pratheep. He return after long gap with romantic Telugu film Andala Rakshasi(2012) which gave him postive response from viewers and critics for his performance.
Later he appeared in Tamil film Therodum Veedhiyile(2012) with Payal Ghosh. In 2013 he did a bilingual film Dalam an action thriller film directed by B. Jeevan Reddy.He is working with both Tamil and Telugu cinema with many films like Sivappu,Meelo Evaru Koteeswarudu,Nenu Local,Aravinda Sametha Veera Raghava,Miss India,Pattas and many more. His films are not can be streamed on OTT’s like aha, Netflix India, Amazon prime Video and Disney plus hotstar.
43 Dhanraj
Dhanraj is an Indian actor working in Telugu cinema and in television.He was born in Vijayawada, Hyderabad now in Telengana to father Sathyaraj and mother Kamalamma. He did his debut film Jai(2014) which was directed and produced by Teja in leads with Navdeep, santhoshi and Ayesha Jhulka.
He played many Telugu and Tamil films like Gopi Gopika Godavari,Gabbar Singh,Cameraman Gangatho Rambabu,Hyderabad Love Story and many more. He has appeared in Telugu reality show Big boss season 1 but didn’t last for more than 6 week. An interesting fact about Dhanraj is while entering to Telugu film industry he was having only four hundred rupees in his pocket and his parents were unnoticed about his journey.
In earlier days he worked in hotel and simultaneously he persued acting career. In popular TV comedy show Jabardasth which telecasted in ETV he was team lead in Dhanadhan Dhanraj. Later he did a comedy show Adhirindi on Zee Telugu in which he was team lead of Dhanraj Blaster. He is married to Sirisha.
44 Allari Naresh
Edara Naresh also known as Allari Naresh is an Indian actor and film producer works in mainly Telugu cinema. Born on 30 June 1982 to a veteran Telugu director and producer E.V.V Satyanarayana in Chennai. He did his schooling from chettinad Vidya ashram, Chennai and moved to Hyderabad.
Talking about his debut film was Allari(2002) a romantic comedy film which was directed by Ravi Babu. His performance was well praised by critics. He got his name Allari from this movie. This did good at the box office. His second film was Dhanalakshmi, I Love You which went bomb at box office.Naresh’s lean phase continued with flops like Nuvvante Naakishtam, Danger and Party, succeeded by Kithakithalu, a blockbuster at the box office, with critics appreciating Naresh’s performance.
He has acted over more than 50 films in which he received some positive response and some negative reviews. He is having a production house named E. V .V. Cinema. He is also became producer and has produced films with his brother Aryan Rajesh. Naresh is married to a Chennai based Virupa Kantamaneni in 2015. Now both are having Daughter born in 2016.Sabhaku Namaskaram is his working projects.
45 Adith Arun
Adith Arun better known as Thrigun is an Indian actor working in Telugu and Tamil cinema. Thrigun did his schooling from Vizag and pursued journalism in Madras Christian College. He was doing theatre before films and has done more than 20 plays as in semi professional level which includes shows for Madras Players and Boardwalkers.He acted on several short films.
His debut film was a Telugu thriller drama Katha which was able to get him by Prakash Raj during his audition for Inidhu Inidhu and got to know some producers. The film also featured Genelia D’Souza. He got good response from critics upon release. He did Tamil film called Theneer Viduthi in 2010 but got poor reviews. His much appreciated in the film Tungabhadra produced by Sai Korrapati which released in 2015 but the film didn’t hit at box office.
He worked in TV Web series Mana Mugguri Love Story(2017) alongside Navdeep and Tejaswi Madivada. This series got much positive response and was successful. Another web series was 11th hour by Peter D cruz which is streamed on Aha. He has appeared in many Telugu and Tamil films like Theneer Viduthi,PSV Garuda Vega,Manasuku Nachindi,Podhu Nalan Karudhi and many more.
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46 J. D. Chakravarthy
Nagulapati Srinivasa Chakravarthy also known as J. D. Chakravarthy is an Indian actor, screenwriter, director, producer, composer and singer. Born on 16 April 1970 to a Telugu speaking family of Mother carnatic singer Professor Dr. Kovela Shantha and father Nagulapati Suryanarayana Rao in Hyderabad.
He did schooling inSt. George’s Grammar School (Hyderabad). He holds B.E degree from Chaitanya Bharathi Institute of Technology. He made his debut film by Ram Gopal Varma’s Telugu film Siva which featured on 12th international Film festival.
Later he made his Bollywood debut of same film which named Shiva(1990). The film got massive positive acclaim and got commercial blockbuster. His next film in Hindi was Vaastu Shastra alongside Sushmita Sen. An anthology film Darna Zaroori Hai got archived at the New York Institute of Technology, New York, America as part of the film course, the film was directed by JD with his debut as director.
He had worked in Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Malyalam films and given many hits like Neti Siddhartha,Money,Money Money,One by Two,Gulabi,Bombay Priyudu,Anaganaga Oka Roju,Egire Paavurama,Nenu Premisthunnanu,Wife of V. Varaprasad,Premaku Velayara,Madhyanam Hathya,Dubai Seenu,Homam,Bhaskar the Rascal and many more. He is married to Anukriti Govind Sharma.
47 Chetan Maddineni
Chetan Maddineni is an Indian actor, director, producer, Screenwriter and dialogue writer working mainly on Telugu cinema.Born on 21 December 1989 in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.He is now resides in Hyderabad, Telangana. His films are Beach road Chetan(2019),1st Rank Raju(2019),Rajulu Marayi(2016),Gulf(2017). He is having more than 102k followers in Instagram.
48 Syed Abid Bhushan
Syed Abid Bhushan is an Indian actor working in Telugu and Hindi cinema.His father Meer is a famous cinematographer cum director who works on Television serials too.He is grandson of veteran actor Nagabhushanam. Syed is also nephew to Johnny lal who is cinematographer.
Bhushan worked at MNC before coming to film industry.He will now be seen in the Hindi film Rhythm, playing a negative role.Athadu Ame Priyudu is his first debut film directed by Veerendranath Yandamoori alongside Sunil,Kaushal Manda and Maheswari Vaddi. His another Telugu film was Vakeel Saab. He is having more than 30.3k followers in Instagram.
49 Ashish Gandhi
Ashish Gandhi is an Indian actor working in Telugu cinema. Born on 10 July 1988 in Hyderabad. Ashish has done few films which are O my god(2016) in Telugu which is Horror drama written & directed by V Srivastav. The film got poor reviews.
His next film was a Horror thriller O sthree repu ra(2016) directed by T Ashok Kumar Reddy.On same year his another film Sri Sri was released by the direction of Muppalaneni Siva. The film got mixed reviews.He did lead in film Natakam(2018) which was an action romantic film directed by Kalyanji Gogana alongside Ashima narwal. The film got some positive reviews.
Uniki which released in 2022 a Thriller crime film directed by Rajkumar Bobby alongside Chitra Shukla.On March 2022 a Telugu horror drama film Director was released, directed by Karthik Krishna with more starcast like Aishwarya Raj Bhakuni, Antra Raut, Mairina Singh and more.
50 Rahul Vijay
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